On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Tom Cloyd <tomcl...@comcast.net> wrote: > Real beginner question here. I don't really know rake, so I'm stumbling. > > As I set a dir to hold my feature files, etc., I'm simply copying the files > structure I see in > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.1.13/examples/i18n/en/ > > I know we need a Rake file ME little dir tree, but I don't think I can just > copy the one in the examples tree - or rather, I think I have to alter the > first line: > > $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../../lib') > > I don't know if this is bash or some ruby thing I haven't figured out, but > mostly I don't know what to do with the '/../../../lib') part. It looks like > its trying to locate the source dir, but if so, why not just specify + > 'lib'...? After staring at it a bit, I have to admit I don't grasp what's > going on. > > Can someone clue me in?
It has to find the source dir relative to that file. '/../../../lib' means to go back up the dir structure three levels and then look for lib there. Pat _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users